{"id":240300,"date":"2026-07-05T00:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/rare-powassan-virus-can-lead-to-serious-brain-or-spinal-cord-inflammation-and-cases-are-rising-in-the-u-s"},"modified":"2026-07-05T00:15:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:15:01","slug":"rare-powassan-virus-can-lead-to-serious-brain-or-spinal-cord-inflammation-and-cases-are-rising-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/rare-powassan-virus-can-lead-to-serious-brain-or-spinal-cord-inflammation-and-cases-are-rising-in-the-u-s","title":{"rendered":"Rare Powassan Virus Can Lead to Serious Brain or Spinal Cord Inflammation, and Cases are Rising in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-powassan-virus-can-lead-to-serious-brain-or-spinal-cord-inflammation-and-cases-are-rising-in-the-u-s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn how Powassan virus spreads through infected ticks, why cases in Maine and Rhode Island are raising concern, and what symptoms can make the infection dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how Powassan virus spreads through infected ticks, why cases in Maine and Rhode Island are raising concern, and what symptoms can make the infection dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}